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CARNIVAL CONCERT
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performer(s):
Krakow Philharmonic Orchestra
Ender Sakpinar – conductor
Wojciech Kaszuba – trumpet
programme:
Duke Ellington – Medley
Aleksandr Arutiunian – Concerto for trumpet
Bedřich Smetana - Vltava from the cycle Má Vlast (My Fatherland)
Antonín Dvořák – Slavonic Dances op. 46 nr 6,7,8; op. 72 nr 2
Aleksandr Borodin – Polovtsian Dances
We’re dancing into the New Year! Our Carnival meeting will begin from a visit paid to the New York’s Harlem at the time, when Duke Ellington ruled the dance floors. The swinging rhythms of his works, composed at the turn of the 1920s and 1930s, inspired crowds to dance, and broke down social barriers...
Following the mix of hits from the Golden Age of Swing, we will travel to Armenia, the homeland of Alexander Arutiunian, to listen to his Concerto for Trumpet of 1950. The composer dedicated his work to Timofei Dokschitzer, and the Ukrainian virtuoso made it famous across the world.
When its final sounds fade away, there comes the time for the Vltava tone poem (1895), which forms part of Bedřich Smetana's symphonic cycle. Thanks to his use of illustrative musical devices, we will have the opportunity to swim with the current of the queen of Czech rivers, starting from its source all the way up to Prague…
Rocked by the song of the sirens, we will then listen to the compositions of another Czech author – Antonín Dvořák. Modelled on Brahms’s dances, they were quick to win immortality and eternal appreciation of all music enthusiasts.
The carnival concert will be crowned with Alexander Borodin’s famous suite Polovtsian Dances, whose draft initiated the composer’s work on Prince Igor. The first performance of the opera, completed by Rimski-Korsakov and Glazunov, took place in 1890 in Saint Petersburg.
Dorota Staszkiewicz
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